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Artists Donate Masterpieces to Museums

Museums expand their collections with generous gifts from private collectors

Ronald S. Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, has donated 13 notable works, including a Gustav Klimt painting, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.


Billionaire investor John Pritzker has given 188 Dada and Surrealist artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a Max Ernst collage and works by Man Ray.


The family of Otto Kallir has donated 130 works related to Austrian Expressionism to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, including a painting by Egon Schiele and a Gustav Klimt portrait.


Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works to the Tate, London, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, including a wood relief by El Anatsui and a photograph by Seydou Keïta.


The Barretts have donated three Swiss artworks to the National Gallery in London, including Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes, the first oil painting by Angelica Kauffmann to enter a British museum collection.


Diana and Moises Berezdivin have donated nearly 50 works to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., including pieces by Rafael Ferrer and Allora & Calzadilla, who became the first Puerto Rican artists to represent the US at the Venice Biennale.


William P. Healey has donated 185 works by Indigenous artists to the Phoenix Art Museum, including Fritz Scholder, Kay WalkingStick, and Cara Romero.

Original source:  https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/top-200-collectors-2026-museum-donations-1234801633/
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